Everybody’s friend is nobody’s. Arthur Schopenhauer
I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel. Logan Pearsall Smith
Our friends show us what we can do, our enemies teach us what we must do. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. Arnold Bennett
A friend is worth all hazards we can run. Edward Young
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. Benjamin Franklin
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. Aristotle.
The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they’re the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights. Warren Harding
Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow. Samuel Paterson
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. Samuel Paterson
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends. Walt Whitman
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Walter Winchell
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired. Robert Southey
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. Tennessee Williams
He makes no friends who never made a foe. Lord Alfred Tennyson
A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative. George Ade
Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world. Henry Drummond
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. Gore Vidal
A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasises your possibilities. William Arthur Ward
Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness. Mary Pipher
When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting. Jean Renoir
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun. Charles R Swindoll
Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there. Judith Viorst
Friends broaden our horizons. They serve as new models with whom we can identify. They allow us to be ourselves – and accept us that way. They enhance our self-esteem because they think we’re okay, because we matter to them. And because they matter to us – for various reasons, at various levels of intensity – they enrich the quality of our emotional life. Judith Viorst
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. Francois duc de La Rochefoucauld
A friend in power is a friend lost. Henry Brooks Adams
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarrelled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends? George Eliot
Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet. John Selden
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don’t accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend. St Augustine
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. Publilius Syrus